Mladen Ivanić

Mladen Ivanić
Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Incumbent
Assumed office 17 November 2016
Prime Minister	Denis Zvizdić
Preceded by	Bakir Izetbegović
In office 17 November 2014 – 17 July 2015
Prime Minister	Vjekoslav Bevanda Denis Zvizdić
Preceded by	Bakir Izetbegović
Succeeded by	Dragan Čović
Serb Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Incumbent
Assumed office 17 November 2014
Preceded by	Nebojša Radmanović
Chairperson of the House of Peoples
In office 14 July 2008 – 26 February 2009
Preceded by	Sulejman Tihić
Succeeded by	Dušanka Majkić
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 13 January 2003 – 9 February 2007
Prime Minister	Adnan Terzić
Preceded by	Zlatko Lagumdžija
Succeeded by	Sven Alkalaj
11th Prime Minister of Republika Srpska
In office 16 January 2001 – 17 January 2003
President	Mirko Šarović Dragan Čavić
Preceded by	Milorad Dodik
Succeeded by	Dragan Mikerević
Personal details
Born	16 September 1958 Sanski Most, Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Political party	Party of Democratic Progress
Alma mater	University of Banja Luka University of Belgrade

Mladen Ivanić (Serbian Cyrillic: Младен Иванић, pronounced [mlâden ǐʋanit͡ɕ]; born on 16 September 1958 in Sanski Most)^[1] is a Bosnian Serb politician who has been a member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2014.

Born in Sanski Most, Ivanić has lived in Banja Luka since 1971, when he earned his university diploma in economics there. He then received a doctorate in Belgrade; the thesis was titled Contemporary Marxist political economy in the West. He undertook post-Doctoral studies at the University of Mannheim and the University of Glasgow. Upon completion of his studies, he worked as a journalist. From 1985 to 1988, he lectured in Political Economy at the Faculty of Economics in Banja Luka, and later also in Sarajevo and Glasgow. His political career began in 1988, when he became a member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina during Yugoslav Socialist times.

From 2001-03, Ivanić was Prime Minister of Republika Srpska (RS), one of Bosnia and Herzegovina's two entities. He also served as the sixth foreign minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina since it became independent in 1992, succeeding Zlatko Lagumdžija on the post, and as such was a member of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In turn, he was succeeded on the post in 2007 by Sven Alkalaj. He is a founding member of the center-right Bosnian Serb Party of Democratic Progress (PDP) and was its President from 1999 to 2015. In October 2014, he was elected as the Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, narrowly beating SNSD's candidate, the RS PM Željka Cvijanović. His victory marked the first time since the Dayton Agreement that the Serb member of the Presidency received the highest number of votes in the country, out of the three elected members. He was chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (head of state) from 17 November 2014 until 17 July 2015.

References

1. Profile page Archived 30 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine. at the Council of Europe